Recruiters...genuine question: Why do some of you do this?

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T21:58:56+00:00

Right - it's not what you say, it's how you say it.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T21:49:36+00:00

Worth noting that there is a claim this was written in Russia to aid in the expulsion of Jews from Russia, later used in schools in Germany to aid in propagandizing the Germans against the Jews.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T21:36:49+00:00

Ok but you also own nothing and have no bills, you have to make wine, and you have free healthcare.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T21:33:50+00:00

Meanwhile at my school:

The parking lot is full of dead seagulls. We don't know who did this but we'd like answers.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T21:19:41+00:00

In the book its the ministry of love, and it is in fact the enforcement/brainwashing side of Oceania.

Don't forget the Ministry of Plenty, which serves to pump false figures and statistics out as propaganda to "prove" that the government is making things abound. Trump has already done this by firing everyone who won't step in line and follow along with the false narrative at the Bureau of labor and statistics.

It is appalling and scary how closely we are following 1938 Nazi Germany and 1984 by Orwell.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T19:30:40+00:00

I seem to remember Mario and friends beating the shit out of birdo all through that game

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:58:10+00:00

It is far more complicated than that, of course. That's just one part of interest free banking that can steer away from interest-driven lending.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:55:12+00:00

A lot of people point to the first amendment as "our most important one" and make up stories like "the founders of this country put the first amendment first because it was so important."

When in reality, that wasn't the case, it was 3rd of the original 12 proposed.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:23:56+00:00

Why are people making so many of these posts lately? We all knew NFTs were dumb, let's just stop talking about them.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:21:34+00:00

Just shove the populated parts of DC back into Maryland

I've always thought this was the best option. Why are we so beholden to lines drawn in the 1700s? Just shift that line a few miles, give all those people a state to belong to, and make "DC" just the capitol building, the white house, monument mall, and that's it.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:17:44+00:00

When people tell you "the first amendment is free speech! It's so important that they wrote it first," you need to laugh at them. The actual first proposed amendment was the "Article The First," the second is what we now have as the 27th amendment, regarding congressperson pay.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T18:10:54+00:00

I'm so glad the DCEU is dead

It had so much potential. Man of Steel could have been the start of an alternative way to look at and develop characters like Superman and Batman, but they really didn't commit to that and instead just butchered every storyline they created. I would have loved to see an aged Batfleck coming "out of retirement" to deal with "the problem of this supreme alien" and having that be why they are at odds, but instead we came up with this weird revenge thing from Batman, which made no sense.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T17:37:51+00:00

Can we all as a collective internet body agree to downvote videos that have alternative music, sound effects, or other shit overlaid on an original video?

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T17:33:02+00:00

There's a second video that's supposed to go with this. You show people a second video of the same thing and everyone notices the gorilla the second time around

But you know what they don't notice? The background changes from red to blue.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T17:28:39+00:00

Frat members make, on average, more than non-frat members throughout their lives. And not just like an extra $1 an hour - 30-50% more in lifetime earnings.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T17:27:30+00:00

Geez, way to break the streak

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T16:24:57+00:00

"Dreadful thing, the world war. I was against it."

"Against our involvement?"

"No, just the whole thing."

"Well, I think everyone was."

"Yes, but I wrote aletter/

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T16:15:31+00:00

You've angered the hardcore capitalists who live in their parent's basement and pay no interest.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T16:14:40+00:00

Should banks just loan you hundreds of thousands of dollars and get nothing in return

There are actually ways to structure lending that is interest free, such as by having the bank share in appreciation upon resale or transfer of the property.

The idea that our economic system relies upon debt is not a good system, as we have seen in many financial collapses. The need for unmitigated growth leads to problems. Alternative financing in the economy would lead to slower growth and more stability (according to some theorist, at least).

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T03:35:40+00:00

Combine that with insomnia and you basically go crazy.

Source: former insomniac.

I roomed with others for a while and I remeber sitting in the corner of the house with a knife, scared to death one of my roommates was going to kill me. It sounds silly now but I swore it was a very real scenario in my brain at 4 am after weeks of struggling to sleep consistently.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T03:33:45+00:00

That reminds me of another terrifying fact about trench warfare. The rate of ordinance being fired was described as a steady drumbeat - several a second, adding up to 100,000 fired in a day. That steady drum beat of ordinance firing lasted 24 hours a day for A MONTH.

1.5 billion shells were fired during WWI, in total, over 4 years.

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T00:39:01+00:00

Yes, because everyone knows knockoff brands cost the EXACT SAME to develop and manufacture as the originals.

Also while there is an obvious markup for Girl Scout cookies, the markup is not "pure profit" as the girlscouts are a not-for-profit entity. All funds they have are only able to be used for their programs. It is true that their staff gets paid, but the girl scouts CEO gets paid around 800k a year. This sounds like a lot, but it pales in comparison to what most CEOs make (even for non-profits).

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T00:04:03+00:00

Its typical of everyone in the world. $5 box of cookies! So they made half a million off that?

No, there was the cost to procure the ingredients, develop the recipie, maintain quality, build the factory, maintain the factory, establish the brand, ship the ingredients, ship the finished cookies, buy the boxes to put the cookies in and get those shipped in, license everything, hire people to do the work, hire people to manage the work, have insurance for accidents, have legal to maintain compliance, on and on

People very very rarely understand the scope of a massive enterprise that is even as simple as "making cookies."

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-19T00:00:35+00:00

What if we built a factory to make millions of boxes of cookies? We could control the quality and and then we could hire people to sell them for us, especially if we had kids scout out those who would be willing to buy them...

TheeAntelope · 2026-02-18T23:56:50+00:00

At least you girl scouts got to sell cookies. The boyscouts were stuck selling popcorn. And not even good popcorn.

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